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Your guide to the essential ideas, trends, people and stories shaping North Africa.

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Muti’ah Badruddeen7 September 2025
Mutia’ah Badrudeen documents how her decades of driving, as a fully veiled Muslim Yoruba woman across multiple countries, reveal prevailing social ideas about gender, identity and belonging.
Wale Lawal24 August 2025
Our latest issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire , confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI.
Dawn Chinagorom-Abiakalam24 August 2025
As artificial intelligence transforms global systems, Africa remains sidelined in its design; even as its labour and resources power the very infrastructure that makes AI possible.
Boluwatife Oyediran24 August 2025
The growth of generative AI has led to debates about its acceptability in art and whether artists are being conservative for rejecting its use.

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Africa’s Role in the Future of Artificial Intelligence
DAWN CHINAGOROM-ABIAKALAMAUGUST 24, 2025

Africa’s Role in the Future of Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence transforms global systems, Africa remains sidelined in its design; even as its labour and resources power the very infrastructure that makes AI possible.
Hot Outside
HILLARY ESSIENAPRIL 25, 2023

Hot Outside

While the details of the loss and damage fund are deliberated upon, Africa continues to be battered by the effects of a rapidly warming planet. The aftermath of extreme weather events like Cyclone Freddy of 2023 on African lives and property is a real-time instance of loss and damage.
Changing the Financial Climate
OLUWASEUN OGUNTUASESEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Changing the Financial Climate

A pragmatic approach to the green economy is required to develop effective strategies for solving the most important problems facing Nigeria today. A greener economy will provide better income opportunities, as well as tackle the need for social and financial inclusion.

When Maasaiphobia Became Policy
LEIYO SINGOAUGUST 3, 2022

When Maasaiphobia Became Policy

The Maasai have become strangers, victims, and miserable paupers on the lands that are rightly theirs, this author writes.

Climate Change and Food Security
LAURA SCHMITT OLABISIJUNE 4, 2018

Climate Change and Food Security

The effects of climate change have arrived in Nigeria, the country with the world’s fastest growing population, which is already struggling to feed itself.
COP Returns to Africa
AFOMA DIKEOCTOBER 27, 2022

COP Returns to Africa

Regardless of Egypt’s motivations or whether or not COP 27 is ‘African’, the vast majority of the consequences wrought by the climate crisis, are. Africa, therefore, needs to confront the crisis head-on.

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